Best TVeets

Good TVeets didn't exist for all, or even most, of 2010 (the first post was Sept 22), but it still seems worth doing a year-end favorites edition anyway. So here then are my selections for the Best TVeets of the fall season. Thanks to all the great tweeters out there, apologies for any great ones I missed, and I look forward to more Twitter genius in 2011!

danieltwalters : I hope #LoneStar wraps up all its remaining loose ends in its second episode.

DamianLovesTV : God, grant me the serenity to accept that #Glee is bipolar, the courage to keep DVRing & the wisdom to know it will be different every week.

fymaxwell : People are now starting to question if Zucker is sabotaging NBC. So nothing about the last 10 yrs set off any red flags? ~http://bit.ly/eAWtIb

aperren : Fox just ordered a new show called Million Dollar Money Drop...but isn't that the name of every show on NBC?

inessentials : #Terriers will go live on a wonderful farm, where it can run free and a very nice family will love it dearly.

danteller : Message to Sally Draper: It gets better.

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poniewozik : “Cannot play this [$#*! My Dad Says] disc," DVD player? CAN'T OR WON'T?

TVandDinners : Watching promos for NBC's midseason slate REALLY makes me wonder what the heck their development dept is doing. Guess? Drinking. Heavily.

zhandlen : NBC has a show coming out in January called Perfect Couples. Just looking at the ad makes me want to punch it.

john_harper : Put Liz Lemon, in front of Kanye's tweets and he becomes Tracy Jordan. “Liz Lemon, I wonder what happened to my antique aquarium.”

ApocalypseHow: How bad is Pete's luck with accounts? "I've got our next moneymaker, gentlemen: It's called 'Thalidomide.'" #madmen

OKBJGM : dear life...i was feeling SO roger sterling, why did you have to shout back “henry francis?”

stayingin : I don't think Nielsen families exist. They're like unicorns.

fymaxwell : TV will break your heart...Unless, that is, you break its heart first.

weinmanj : Oh, OUTLAW. I will miss you when you go. You offered true terribleness in a season where all else was merely boring.

JohnFugelsang : The only good thing about 'Steven Seagal: Lawman' is that it protects us from 'Steven Seagal: Actorman.'

darthvader : I tried going on Undercover Boss a while back, but the breathing gave me away.

JustinFowler : The actors are all so likable they *almost* save MIKE AND MOLLY from all the fat jokes, gay jokes, stereotypes and misogyny. It's so close!

Memles : Mike & Molly: the worst show you should be watching so that I have someone to yell at it with.

HitFixDaniel : Darn. ABC's pickups press release doesn't include a quote from anybody saying, “Well, we had to do *something*.”

ditzkoff : ABC just now breaking into Modern Family to announce rescue of miners. If I wanted closure to a thrilling narrative would I be watching ABC?

michaelianblack : Tragedy + Time = Comedy. Kardashian + Time = Tragedy.

chadlavi : The Golf Channel may be one of Al Quaeda's best recruiting tools.

sononick : Oh no! The boring white people are coming right at me! RT @badgate Golf Channel to air the Sony Open in 3D in January 2011.

zhandlen : So #Fringe _and_#Community are in danger of cancellation? This clinches that I'm on the wrong Earth, I think. To the elevators!

JohnFugelsang : Parker? I didn't even Spitzer!

EricStangel : Election Night: Between Spitzer, Gergen & Carville, the CNN panel looks like the Cantina Scene from Star Wars.

danielthomsen : Anytime a sentence on Fox News is begun with "Look, I'm not a bigot, but...," you can be pretty sure some moron's about to get fired.

mikemadden : I'm no bigot, but if I see a cable news pundit walking toward me on the street, I get nervous.

mattthomas : When I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see Charlie Sheen, I get worried. I get nervous.

michaelianblack : Whoa - now I'm hearing reports that there was COCAINE involved? I'm sorry, but that doesn't sound like the Charlie Sheen I know.

princesscowboy : remember: there is always money in the banana stand.
l_e_s : At any time, in any context, this is always relevant.

EnergyTanks : Oh and if anyone spoils Friday Night Lights I will [insert most painful thing you imagine happening to you in your lifetime].

tvoti : I CAN'T HANDLE THE TAYLORS BEING DISAPPOINTED IN JULIE. IT FEELS LIKE THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED IN ME. #FNL

jmonjo :  I'd like to give #TheWalkingDead the benefit of the doubt re: its weird gender issues. I'd like to, but there's no way in hell I'm going to. And that's because #TheWalkingDead has really weird gender issues.

chitownburke : I can't wait to watch AMC's The Walking Dead premiere on Halloween and see clips of every new major-network show.

franklinavenue : AMC's The Walking Dead posted the highest ratings for a TV show featuring the living dead since 60 Minutes.

noelrk : Next year, on Mad Men: SALLY WANT BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINS! (Betty will be exactly the same.)

iwatchTVshows : The Hot Topic t-shirt slogans of yesterday are the Twitter updates of today are the sitcoms of tomorrow.

stamos : Base a TV show on my blog if you want: “A girl who works in TV also writes about TV, on her TV show.” It's meta, so you might not get it.

HitFixDaniel : No new episode of The Event tonight. I will simulate the experience with warm milk and a Tylenol PM.

theonetruebix :  #TheEvent Writer 1: “Here's my latest script. Have fun with the next one.” Writer 2 (skipping to last page): “Oh, fuck you.”

urthstripe : I know I've seen worse shows, but The Event is the worst show I've ever seen.

BrentPiaskoski : Boardwalk Empire spoiler alert: They show boobs. At first I was worried, not really following the story, then BAM... it all made sense.

VDOOZER : Olive Garden commercials make me feel like there's no point to anything.

bazecraze : I am reminded of my childhood Christmases every time I hear Jeff Probst say, “I got nothin' for you. Head on back to camp.”

JustinFowler : Modern Family would like you to know that stereotypes are not OK, but still pretty funny.

danieltwalters : Why is watching television considered low culture where watching theater is considered high culture? Is it just that theater is live?
Aatrek : You don't need pants to watch TV.

ConanOBrien : 48 hours until a show that will either blow up the paradigm of TV as we know it, or nestle comfortably among Yes, Dear reruns.

poniewozik : So it turns out if you give Conan cable freedom to do whatever he wants, what he wants to do is Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

morgan_murphy : Dateline should just be called “if you marry a doctor, he will kill you.”

marisaroffman : Whenever I look in my closet, I feel like I need to get more normal clothes. And by that, I mean shirts that aren't TV-related.

thesulk : I'd respect a TV show with a theme song that's just 30 seconds of a guy screaming “These are the characters!”

nprmonkeysee : There's something depressingly appropriate about going from this episode of Glee to an ad about simulated head injuries.

tvoti : Tonight's Glee: Here is a plot. Here is another plot. HOLY SHIT, HERE IS ANOTHER PLOT.

kentuckyprophet : Glee ruins songs I already hate.

TVWithoutPity : If #Glee recycled #NipTuck storylines: Terri would fall off the roof of Sheets-N-Things during a rap battle with Will.

tvoti : Why isn't every scene of this show just Heather Morris dancing?

KelliMarshall : Make 'Em Laugh = Make 'Em Stop. #Glee

brianstelter : Just caught up on three weeks' worth of Glee. That show blows me away sometimes.
aperren : and at other times, it just blows...

theshoresofme : My ideal #Glee: Mike Chang & Brittany dance, Artie & Mercedes sing, Kurt & Burt hug, Finn & Quinn cry, Sue makes jokes. At Will's funeral.

TVDoneWright : It's a sign from God folks.... RT @EW: 'Glee' scoop: Production halted due to tonsillitis outbreak.

vaupel : #Glee used to be fun, right? Or was I just drunk every Tuesday night last year?

tvoti : I think Lea Michele is genuinely underrated as an actress, and I don't care who knows it! (I mean, clearly, I do. I'm saying this after midnight on the West Coast. No one will EVER READ THIS.)

franklinavenue : I hear you, Wisconsin guy. I usually shoot at my TV whenever the kid in the wheelchair on Glee starts talking “street.”

JustinFowler : Ad for very special anti-bullying episode of Glee directly followed by ad for Hell's Kitchen. Good job, Fox!

ApocalypseHow : I'm starting to think the first thing Rachael Ray cooks every day is meth.

johnmoe : Me? Just sitting around trying to rank my favorite Marriage Ref episodes. Again.

BastardMachine : The one trend they never discovered at the American Policy Institute: That Rubicon's ratings were dismal. All the signs were there, too.

truxtonspangler : Analysts. Don't bother returning to the office. Locks have been changed. All contents will be destroyed or moved to DC. #rubicon #APIShutDown

timcarvell : Rubicon producers to AMC: “Did we mention that everyone's a zombie? 'Cause they are. We can make that more explicit in season two, if you want.”

BrentPiaskoski : If Terriers was a woman, I'd cheat on The Good Wife with it. #terriers

42inchtv : I know it's Wednesday because Wednesday is the day when everyone TV critic on Twitter begs people to watch Terriers, and then no one does.

corybarker : #SaveTerriers would work so much better if WE HAD SOMETHING TO BUY. I don't understand fan campaigns unless I'm told where to blow $20.

kvanaren : Dammit. TV sucks sometimes. #Terriers #2ndstageofgrief … If only the show had been called something else! #Terriers #3rdstageofgrief …  Screw it, I'm watching Real Housewives of Atlanta. #probably4thstageofgrief #Terriers

inessentials : Some cultures wear black. Some cultures wear white. Some cultures pour out a 40. Me, I cancel my Season Pass. #Terriers

hankdolworth : gotta go to Ralph's to get food for my new housemates from #Rubicon. Dragging @TheWillTravers with me. Too much noise from Attic. #Terriers

JustinFowler : I haven't watched any of the shows people are talking about tonight. I have, however, watched The Mentalist. It was not a bottle episode. There were no references to Glee. And as far as I know Bruno Heller hasn't insulted anyone on Twitter today.

JonathanLDavis : I want to go to a sports bar and tune one the TVs to The Good Wife and pretend like a game is happening.

thepatrickwalsh : Listening to writing partner argue w/ the cable company. Never before has the phrase “Starz Super Pack” been uttered with so much disgust.

MyPolishFace : Watching Sarah Palin's Alaska is like listening to Marlee Matlin's Mozart.

crsbecker : The PBS circus doc is really good. When windbags demand defunding of PBS, ask them where we'll get work like that w/o it. Then: shin-kick.

BoobsRadley : They really broke the mold when they made Alec Baldwin. But then they kept using the mold anyway. Thus, Stephen.

bazecraze : If you like cops, you should watch COPS, and if you don't like cops, you should watch Frontline.

theshoresofme : Must add "Would that this [object] were a time [object]" to regular vocabulary. #Community

cynthiahaan : #Community makes me feel sorry for all the shows that aren't Community.

bbsting120 : Twitter's reaction to this season of #Community every week: New Best episode EVER!

inessentials : Working with Twitter open while #Community is on is like the sad-sack kid staring out the window at the children playing in the yard.

loganpoppy : Bristol should pay homage to her Mom and quit right in the middle of her next #DWTS dance.

DamianLovesTV : christ on crutches, Fox. if you want LESS people to watch #Fringe, just move it to NBC. Not Fridays!

danieltwalters : TV is doing a good job at thinning out the shows I watch, giving me more time for real life. #Fringe #Caprica #Terriers #Huge

cassiebelek : To my future husband: If you love me as much as Oprah's Favorite Things audience loves her, our marriage will last forever.

BobbyRiversTV : #Oprah now has women who are so white they're almost see-thru acting like Mahalia Jackson in church w/ her Favorite Things cruise.

watchterriers : #oprah should give everyone a second season of #terriers.

JamesUrbaniak : Oprah never gives me shit.

ThisJessicaRae : Eventually on #GossipGirl they'll run out of pairings and do Dan/Jenny by accident.

billkirkp : I love Blair around Dan. He makes her want to be a worse person. He incompletes her. He lost her at hello. More Blair & Dan! #GossipGirl

fymaxwell : Holy crap Zucker to be shitcanned! I wonder how many years Bill Carter has had this story sitting on his hd done and read to print. #~nbcFAIL I haven't been this happy since the day Ben Silverman announced that he was leaving NBC to more fully devote himself to being a douchebag.

maskedscheduler : Rather than doing interview shows+panels 2 apologize 4 decimating the Peacock couldn't Mr. Zucker have just attended Yom Kippur service?

ditzkoff : Surely by now TLC has enough raw footage for its new show “Kate Goes to Places and Stands There Ruefully.”

crsbecker : The only man I've seen in his underwear as much as my husband is Bryan Cranston. #snl

jmonjo : Tuned into my first thirty seconds of SNL this season. Plan for rest of the weekend is to be wistful for those lost thirty seconds. Metaphors involving sand slipping through fingers will be employed.

adamfairholm : I hate that sinking feeling when an SNL skit starts and you realize exactly what is going to happen over the next 5-8 minutes. #snl

jmnstasiuk : It's too bad Saturday Night Live has become a drama about the worst writers and their horrible jokes. I liked it better as a comedy. #snl

kvanaren : After several eps, I'm convinced that the FoodNetwork show Unwrapped is actually covert anti-globalization propaganda.

midwestspitfire : Someday, I'm going to ask for the remote at the laundromat so I can fix their shitty HDTV settings. #payitforward

noelrk : Just saw a trailer for #TheCape. Consider my morbid curiosity for horrible television piqued.

SarahLovesTV : When I see my twitter feed all I'm imagining is an angry mob of people holding pitchforks and signs while screaming No Joss = No #Buffy.

BastardMachine : Note to writer of Buffy movie who is not named Joss Whedon: Do not use the Internet. And cancel your email accounts. You're welcome.

realityblurred : Skating with the Stars debuted tonight, and I have never been more grateful to be spending a week with my friends who don't have TV.

nprmonkeysee : Gee, Skating With The Stars flopped? How could they have known? IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN AN EXACT REPLICA FIVE YEARS AGO THAT FLOPPED.

HitFixDaniel : Darn all of you for spoiling Dancing with the Stars for me! I HATE YOU! Oh. Right. The not-caring.

adamfairholm : My dad is flipping between two episodes of Two and a Half Men on different channels. #thanksgiving

princesscowboy :  As we watch back to back episodes of 16 AND PREGNANT my husband and I chant, like a mantra You are so f**ked, You are so f**ed.16 year mama: “What if I'm a bad mother?” 16 year daddy: “I'm sure your maternal instincts will kick in.” Me: “You are so F**ked!” #16&pregnant

HitFixDaniel : This was definitely an Emmy episode for the baby on Raising Hope.

JustinFowler : I like Raising Hope, but I keep waiting for Garret Dillahunt to show his true colors and murder everyone horribly.

GlennF : I'm trying out the new ChtHulu Plus service: its all the unearthly, unending horror, but in high definition, and only 799 souls per month.

markboynz : When TV episodes are about the TV industry, it feels even more like work.

JustinFowler : Fringe promo people, pretty sure “if you only see one episode of Fringe all year,” this particular episode will make no damn sense at all.

poniewozik : One #BRIDALPLASTY contestant is called stuck up b/c she was on BIGGEST LOSER. In this house, it's like having done Shakespeare.

Aseroff : Watching True Blood pilot, and can't help pretending all vampires are college students, and True Blood is Four Loko.

sepinwall : When I take a DVD from room to room, I never have a harder time finding my place than w/In Treatment. Not a lot of dynamic action to skim for. Seriously, I love the show, but did I stop watching on the shot where Debra Winger looks pensive, or the one where she looks introspective?

FakeAPStylebook : Stories on reality TV shows and their stars should only be submitted electronically so your editor can't see your tears of shame.

KateAurthur : In theory, I like Maggie Rodriguez and am sad she's gone from CBS Early Show. In practice, I watch 'Today' like everybody else.

ApocalypseHow : Kara DioGuardia writing memoir about her time judging American Idol. It's titled: “Which One Was I Again?”

TVKel : If I was Ally Walker, my next role would be VERY sympathetic - like cancer survivor that adopts blind Katrina orphaned crack babies. #SAMCRO

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TVandDinners : My favorite part of today: using a #Deadwood reference in a comment to a food blog post. My life is sad.

jmonjo :  #VSeries is still my favourite hashtag on Twitter. No, not the letter! Or the Roman numeral. Or the sign for victory. Or the Pynchon book. Or the subsequent film version. No, it's #VSeries! You know! On television!

BigTVFan : The first episode of V's new season is quite good. Some interesting new twists.
noelrk : It being “quite good” is in and of itself a new twist.

HitFixDaniel : If I'm editing the Amazing Race finale, I'm splicing in The Watermelon Incident before EVERY commercial.

laermer : Suddenly I'm forced to watch live TV. Which means (if you forgot) you *must* watch ads. Rolling On The floor. No laughter - just ROTF

MattMitovich : #Dexter renewal = great news for the Karo Syrup industry, which was sad about #TheWalkingDead's long hiatus.

wonderella : The Simpsons has officially become that friend of your parents who's going through a rough divorce and hugs way too long.

thepatrickwalsh : Not once have I been watching Hoarders and thought “Weird, that person doesn't LOOK like a hoarder.”

apresledeluge : The only thing that makes bad TV tolerable is knowing there are people on the internet who hate those shows even more than you do, and being able to bitch about it together. Isn't technology wonderful?

HitFixDaniel : I dig the b-story in the Bernie Sanders filibuster, i.e. the guy doing the crossword behind him. ... ACK! Just as I tweeted that, Crossword Man left the frame! Is he delivering a baby? #filibernie #abed ... I looked away. Bernie Sanders was gone. I just became the first person to rewind CSPAN to understand a plot twist.

bazecraze : “I don't know. Take the lyrics to some Christmas song and change them so they're about shopping.” --how a thousand ad meetings ended

scharpling : Every single person involved in the Burger King “human hamburger” ad campaign should be thrown in jail.

benfritz : If my children talked like the ones in the new Toyota Highlander ads, I would drive them to the nearest orphanage immediately.

DanRyckert : Here's my impression of Spike commercials. TITS BEER FOOTBALL PUNCHING BUFFALO WINGS!!! IF YOU'RE NOT WATCHING YUR QUEER!!!

maskedscheduler : OK how many people got spit in the face today while discussing the Piper Perabo Golden Globe nomination?

Snoodit : Memo to #FNL's Connie Britton: On my Globes nomination list, I see your name instead of Piper Perabo. #ClearEyes

BrentPiaskoski : 'Crime-solving iPhone apps for 'NCIS' fans.' “Thanks!” says only NCIS fan who owns an iPhone.

HartHanson: A weird, unsettling script. I foresee yelling, recriminations, second-guessing, and indignant huffing. And it's not even a season ender. #bones
noahhawley : @HartHanson what is it they say? At the end of the day you're only ever really competing with yourself? And the biggest comedy on television

HartHanson : Holy Crap, look at Glee in the most prized demo. Note to self: find out who can and cannot sing and dance on the Bones cast.

julie_bush : I'm at the part of the pilot-writing process where I walk to Vons alone on a Sat night, buy myself a cake, then read it out loud.  I imagine how pathetic the Vons cashiers think I am. I want to tell them this is my 4th pilot. I know what I'm doing in their line at 10 pm.

ShawnRyanTV : Stopping work for the night. I hope America enjoys this shit in 5 months.

DannyZuker : Today I'm really going to focus and get some writing done. Gonna buckle down and --- ooh Mythbusters marathon!

JuddApatow : Why bother writing when nothing I write will ever be as good as Celebrity Rehab? I need a drug habit so I can get life help from Dr. Drew. … Writing was going well then Celebrity Rehab came on. Then when I thought it was over - another one came on. This could be the end of writing

danharmon : The system tries to get me to stop caring. Then I see "Britta tries to befriend a gnome" on the call sheet, and I remember why we do this. #Community

danharmon : A- and above, DON'T read comments. B and below, skip review, read comments. #OnionAVSurvivalGuide (guide only good for survival of ego)

mindykaling : My show's character's catchphrase is “White people!” and I look to camera and roll my eyes, but all the way around, like in a horror movie  My show is like 227 meets The Walking Dead, btw.

HartHanson : Apparently, David Shore and I should discuss upcoming storylines every once in a while... slave ships? We both did SLAVE SHIPS?

VDOOZER : I still dream of new Scrubs episodes, even Spin City ones - total great use of my time.

julie_bush : What's great is when you turn in your spec pilot to your agents, then the next day NBC announces a new show based on the same thing
weinmanj : On a happier note, it's NBC so the show has already failed and been canceled.

jennicaharper : Thanks, working on a sitcom, for making me completely unfit for polite company.

MikeRoyce : TV writing: if you're stuck, you walk down the hall & someone helps you. Screenplay: you walk down the hall & jump out the window.

DamonLindelof : Me: “Sorry, haters. You have a point. I feel your pain.” Haters: “Go fuck yourself.” Sigh...

daniel_turner : Twitterers. The reason that film/tv show might be boring as you tweet, is because you are tweeting. How would u feel if you made that show? ... If i catch anyone tweeting during my new film, even when it comes out on telly in 3 years time, I will come round and pull your fingers off.

elibraden : When someone asks if they might have heard of a show I've written for I mention The Office ... I DON'T mention it's just an unused spec.